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The Tennis Podcast

Fed Cup Final Day 1 - Dreams and nightmares; ATP Finals Preview - Tales from media day

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Fed Cup final is evenly poised going into Sunday after a very strange opening day which saw Kiki Mladenovic thrash Ajla Tomljanovic 6-1, 6-1, before Ash Barty levelled for Australia with a 6-0, 6-0 demolition of Caroline Garcia. Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts try to make sense of it all.

Why were the matches so one-sided? Was Tomljanovic simply affected by nerves? Was it really the best match Barty has ever played? And will the captains make changes to their teams tomorrow? All that and more is discussed, and we hear from all four players.

Elsewhere, there's time to preview the ATP Finals. How motivated is Djokovic by the chance to finish the year as World No.1? Will the court be faster this year? And what is Matteo Berrettini like?

The Tennis Podcast is produced weekly year-round in association with Telegraph Sport, and daily during all four Grand Slams, the WTA and ATP Finals, and the Fed and Davis Cup finals. 

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm John McInerid, I'm Bjorn Borg.

0:02.3

This is Martina Navratlova, I'm Matt Vylander, this is Mary Carrillo, I'm Stan Ravinka, I'm

0:07.2

like Newt, I'm Andy Murray, and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast.

0:21.7

Will you find myself and Matt once again in the media lounge of the O2 arena, which is,

0:29.1

I mean this is not Newt, but a weird place, isn't it? I've just got completely lost in it

0:33.2

for about the seventh time in 24 hours, and I still can't figure out if it's indoors or outdoors,

0:39.4

why on earth there's a super drug here. Who is satisfying there because

0:43.6

Messic needs at the O2 arena in Greenwich? It's a weird, weird place.

0:52.0

People come here for nights out when there's not something going on at the O2 in the arena.

0:57.2

Blows my mind, that absolutely blows my mind. And you have to make sure you walk around the right

1:02.4

way, don't you? Otherwise you end up just miles from where you want to be. I know someone who

1:09.0

should not be named that was once taken for a first date at the Harvester of the O2, which is one

1:15.2

of the saddest stories I've ever heard. I tell you what else is a weird place, Canary Wharf at the weekend.

1:21.9

That's where my Airbnb is. It's an absolute ghost town. You've teased the listener

1:28.9

Matt with the mention of your Airbnb story to come later, folks, story involving Matt being up

1:35.8

in the middle of the night without his glasses on, because you were watching day one of the

1:41.0

Fed Cup final between Australia and France in Perth, and it's all finally poised after day one,

1:47.9

perfectly poised in terms of the rest of the tie at one winner piece.

1:53.9

And I suppose maybe the bare facts of the results are not unexpected, the manner of the results,

1:59.7

the manner of the victories for Ash Barthie over Caroline Garcia and Keiki Medenevich over

2:08.4

Adia Tom Yanovich, very, very surprising Matt. And also surprising to the extent that you got

2:14.8

more sleep than hoped and expected. Yeah. Up at three, back in bed at six, saw two tennis matches.

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